Catalog Search Results
1) Ripper
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A fast-paced mystery involving a brilliant teenage sleuth who must unmask a serial killer in San Francisco through Ripper, the online mystery game she plays with her beloved grandfather and friends around the world"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
"Born in southern California late in the eighteenth century, he is a child of two worlds. Diego de la Vega's father is an aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner; his mother, a Shoshone warrior. Diego learns from his maternal grandmother, White Owl, the ways of her tribe while receiving from his father lessons in the art of fencing and in cattle branding. It is here, during Diego's childhood, filled with mischief and adventure, that he...
Author
Language
English
Description
The story weaves a vivid and engrossing tale of one man's search for love and his struggle to come to terms with a childhood of poverty and neglect. As he journeys from the Hispanic barrio in Los Angeles to the killing fields of Vietnam to the frenetic life of a lawyer in San Francisco, Gregory Reeves loses himself in an illusory and wrongheaded quest. Only when he circles back to his roots does he find the love and acceptance he has been looking...
5) Nope
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Two siblings who run a California horse ranch discover something wonderful and sinister in the skies above, and the owner of an adjacent theme park tries to profit from the mysterious, otherworldly phenomenon.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles, 2019: Rick Deckard of the LAPD's Blade Runner unit prowls the steel & microchip jungle of the 21st century. His job is to track down and eliminate assumed humanoids known as 'replicants.' Replicants were declared illegal after a bloody mutiny on an Off-World Colony, and are to be terminated upon detection. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 6 "skin jobs," the slang for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth....
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015].
Language
English
Description
Lincoln Lawyer: Michael 'Mick' Haller is a slick, charismatic Los Angeles criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back of his Lincoln Town Car. Having spent most of his career defending petty, gutter-variety criminals, Mick unexpectedly lands the case of a lifetime. However, what initially appears to be a straightforward case with a big money payoff swiftly develops into a deadly match between two masters of manipulation and a crisis of...
8) Muzzle
Publisher
RLJE Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
LAPD K-9 officer Jake Rosser and his K-9 partner, Ace, battle it out on the streets of LA, when they get into a shootout with local drug dealers and Ace is shot dead. In a moment of crisis, Jake tries to get an EMT to look at Ace and assults him when he refuses, resulting in him taking leave from the force. Blocked by Internal Affairs, muzzled by his own superiors from finding the shooter's identity, Jake resolves to go rogue and partners with Socks,...
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Michael 'Mick' Haller is a slick, charismatic Los Angeles criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back of his Lincoln Town Car. Having spent most of his career defending petty, gutter-variety criminals, Mick unexpectedly lands the case of a lifetime. However, what initially appears to be a straightforward case with a big money payoff swiftly develops into a deadly match between two masters of manipulation and a crisis Includes bibliographical...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In a futuristic Los Angeles of 2019, detective Rick Deckard is a highly rated "Blade Runner" assigned to find and kill illegal cybernetic "replicants", genetic creations with superhuman abilities. Pulled unwillingly out of retirement, Deckard is forced into one last case, six exceptionally dangerous replicants who have escaped from slave labor and made their way into the city, apparently with plans to gain vengeance on the corporate masters who created...
13) Lady Bird
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a young woman living in Northern California for a year.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
For Vince, Eric, Drama, and Turtle, life in Hollywood's fast lane can be an intoxicating roller-coaster of a ride. After hitting some speed bumps the last couple of years, Vince's career is in high gear after his role in a new Martin Scorsese film. But now that Vince is back on top, is it finally time for the entourage to step out of his shadow?
15) Ambulance
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Needing money to cover his wife's medical bills, a decorated veteran teams up with his adoptive brother to steal $32 million from a Los Angeles bank. However, when their getaway goes spectacularly wrong, the desperate thieves hijack an ambulance that's carrying a severely wounded cop and an EMT worker. Caught in a high-speed chase, the two siblings must figure out a way to outrun the law while keeping their hostages alive.
16) The lost boys
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When a string of mysterious deaths occur after they move to a coastal California town, teenagers Mike and Sam become convinced that their new home is overrun with vampires.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Blade Runner 2049: A young blade runner's discovery of a long buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.
Blade Runner: the final cut: In a future Los Angeles, Rick Deckard of the LAPD's Blade Runner unit prowls the steel & microchip jungle. His job is to track down and eliminate assumed humanoids known as 'replicants.' Replicants. The city that Deckard must search for his prey is a...
Language
English
Description
California awakens one day to discover that one third of its population has vanished. A peculiar pink fog surrounds the state and communication outside its boundaries has completely shut down. As the day progresses, it becomes apparent the sole characteristic linking the missing 14 million is their Hispanic heritage.
19) Southland tales
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In 2008, the United States is a virtual police state, with the government taking control of nearly every part of people's lives. A German firm has found a way to generate energy using seawater, but both public and private concerns are desperate to prevent the new technology from being introduced in the gasoline-starved United States. Boxer Santaros is an actor famous for his role in action films. He is currently trying to secure financing for a new...
20) Father Stu
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long moves to Los Angeles to find money and fame. While scraping by as a supermarket clerk, he meets Carmen, a Sunday school teacher who seems immune to his bad-boy charm. Determined to win her over, the longtime agnostic starts going to church to impress her. However, a motorcycle accident leaves him wondering if he can use his second chance to help others, leading to the surprising realization...